Jordi Hays

I think another thing people are worried about is the idea of monoculture, which happens in Silicon Valley every once in a while, where someone says, serif fonts are tasteful, sans serif is no longer tasteful.

therefore everyone must use Sans Serif or vice versa.

And we're all like, wait, everything looks the same.

This is actually bland.

This doesn't feel as rich or tasteful as what you'd see in a thriving community that actually has a ton of culture to it.

I'm interested to know though, about the actual process, congratulations on the funding round, but how are you thinking about actually,

actually imbuing models with taste?

How much of this is about data labeling?

How much of this is bringing on experts with particular backgrounds?

Is this a very high skill ceiling effort where you're finding artists and people with art history backgrounds?

Who is the ground truth?

Where's the ground truth coming from?

I always think of in text the it's not this, it's that.

It's the parallelism, antithetical parallelism is the name of that term.

And by itself, I probably read that exact phrase in... Actually, somebody...

pulled up an old Paul Graham essay that had that exact phrase, the forbidden AI slop phrase from a decade ago.

And it's probably been in New Yorker articles and famous books, but it was only when it became so repeated that it was in every paragraph of every thing that was ever generated that it became a tell and it became somewhat, I don't even know if it's less tasteful, but just annoying.

And I think that I'm interested to know like,

how much of taste in your mind or just the quality output is driven just by variation?

Do you think we can one day, uh, it feels like we're, we're, I mean, even just the latest revision of the models, the, like, if you interact with the frontier, the it's not this, it's that like is actually gone.